News: Toonboom Storyboard Pro 4 has arrived!

Anyone who knows me personally knows that I have always been a fan and advocate of Toonboom Storyboard Pro. Over the years I’ve had a number of heated arguments with friends over it; most of them entailing why they can’t support 2d bitmapped drawing. While I see the benefits of vector drawing, I also understand the need for an easy flowing 2d brush as it’s much closer to a real pencil and there’s truly no substitute for that. Nevertheless, I have found that, once you learn Storyboard Pro and have made use of it’s timeline there’s really no going back to a program like Photoshop for storyboarding regardless of the vector drawing. It’s far and away a more efficient tool. I have even found it’s vector engine to be far superior with regards to inking as it’s much better than Illustrator and I use it for all my inking and cleanup as well as my coloring.

That said, it looks like Toonboom has been listening to it’s users and has finally released a version with bitmap drawing! Below are some of the newest features of Toonboom Storyboard Pro v4. I’m waiting for my new copy and once it arrives I will do a review of it.